Pull-strap for boots or shoes



(No Model.)

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No. 435,981. Patented Sept. 9, 1890.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. SHIPPEE, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

PULL-STRAP FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

1 SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,981, dated September 9, 1890.

Application filed June 10 1890. Serial No. 354.933. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SHIPPEE, of Milford, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement -in Means for Attaching Straps to Boots or Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention comprehends improved means for attaching straps to boots and shoes, such as Congress gaiters, button-boots, and the like, cheapness and durability being the particular advantage gained.

My invention is applied to boots or shoes having a lining which is made of two parts or pieces stitched together. The strap is made in usual manner of a strip of Webbing folded upon itself, and the ends thereof are secured to this lining by the same line of stitching which unites the parts thereof, so that at the same time that the liningis stitched together the strap is fastened to it.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a Congress gaiter having its front strap attached by means embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a cross-sectional detail of a portion of the shoe shown in Fig. 1, taken on the dotted line 0c 00; Fig. 3, a side view of the lining shown in Fig. 1, having a strap attached to it; Fig. 4, a cross-sectional detail of the lining and strap shown in Fig. 3, taken on the dotted line 3 y; and Fig. 5, an edge View of the lining and strap shown in Fig. 1.

The boot or shoe to which the strap may be applied in accordance with this invention may be of any usual or suitable construction, it being herein represented as a Congress gaiter A. (See Fig. 1). Theliningof this shoe is made in two parts a I), (see Figs. 2 to 5,) stitched together at the front by a line of stitching 2.

The strap is represented as of any usual construction, it consisting of a strip of webbing c folded upon itself. The two ends of this strap are fastened to the lining a b by the same line of stitching 2 that unites the two halves of the lining, as best shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. Thelining with its attached strap is thereafter spread or opened out and further secured to the top piece of the boot or shoe by stitching, as at d, which unites the lining to the upper at the top, and when so spread the strap will consequently be turned and will overlap the edges of the lining, it being then properly presented for .use, as represented in Fig. 1.

I do not desire to limit myself to the loca tion of the strap.

I claim In a boot or shoe, a pull-strap attached to the lining by the same stitches which unite the two parts of the lining and to the upper by the stitches uniting the upper and lining, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES W. SHIPPEE.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, EMMA J. BENNETT. 

